Saturday, September 11, 2004

i made it... - Saturday, September 11 2004 (0230)

whooosaa....ok now. i'm in waterloo. again. just got back from Front Row where we had drinks n snacks w/ a few ppl: allie & her friend (judy?), carter, ben, vinnie. toby, dave, andrew, & gangster tsoi were there too w/ their hockey buddies. it's great living right across the street from the university plaza now; close to some local nightlife, the pubs/restaurants (i.e. food)

got a nice big balcony on the 6th floor w/ a good view, and for once - a decent walk to class! no more of this 45min. walk/20min. bike ride crap! BUT as always...nothing ever went as smoothly as it should've...

(Thursday, September 9 2004)

i)flight over was fine. direct, 4hr flight, only thing was that my camera ran out of battery when i wanted to take some good skyshots. ah well, went to sleep instead. got into TO around 2000, got all my luggage by about 2035 and rushed over to the ground transportation desk and asked the lady there if the 2030 airport shuttle van had left yet. the old hag arches an eyebrow n looks at me saying: "what 8:30 shuttle? there's no 8:30 airporter." undaunted, i politely tell her i looked on their website and that it said there were 2 trips scheduled every day for 8:30 and 10:00pm. old mother hubbard behind the counter just spits out her line again about how there is no airporter, that the last one left at 6:00pm. she gives me their "new" schedule on a piece of paper saying it's been like that since early August. by now it's clear to me that these morons didn't care to update their website to inform people of the schedule change. o_O so, i make a few calls, n after some consideration of my alternatives ($120+ taxi, sleepover in the airport, get someone from Scarborough to let me sleep over, etc...), i decided to try and see if i could hitch a ride on a scheduled pickup for $25 more than the shuttle price ($68 total). this would take me straight to the door of the apartment instead of dropping me off at the University, but what time i'd be able to leave would depend on seat availability and prescheduled trips. so, i waited around till about 2200(?) and finally got a seat on one. had to wait around in the airport for over an hour, but great, i'm finally on my way.

ii)got dropped off at the doorstep of UW Towers around 0000. unloaded all my luggage n went into the lobby entrance (where no key was needed) and tried to buzz up JT in #609. can't do it. a tennant passing by tells me they shut off the intercom after certain hours. great. i knew Jeff was doing frosh week so he might not have been home neway, but i thought maybe someone else would be. oh well, i'll just wait here. a few minutes pass, n some girl comes into the building, she lives in here n was nice enough to let me into the secured lobby where there was a couch, and where i could actually get into the elevator. so i sat there for a bit, then decided to just go ahead n load up all my luggage (i mean all, there was lots) into the elevator myself n just go up n see if anyone was home. so i do it...nobody home. great, i had a nice seat downstairs, now i'm in the hall w/ this mountain of stuff and nowhere to sit. i decide that nobody will steal my stuff (hey, it's waterloo) so i go back downstairs n chill on the elevator for a while, waiting for jeff to get home. by this time, i figure a few ppl are wondering where the hell i am since i'd said i'd call either mike or jeff when i got to the University to pick me up, but nyeh i figure they'll come home sooner or later. i go up every 15min. to make sure nobody snags my stuff...but i get bored of this after 45min. so i just decide to stay downstairs and sleep. finally, around 0120ish, i hear a familiar voice down the hall...jeff's finally home. he just came back from frosh week's Monte Carlo Night n his 2 friends Carol n Karen were w/ him too. they came up n chilled for a bit while i unloaded my stuff into vinnie's room, which still had a lot of his stuff in it actually; he hadn't had time to move out cuz noone was available to help him move the big stuff. no biggie, i didn't bother unpacking n just found a place to plant my ass for the night. jeff offered me a filet-o-fish...after having made up my mind back in vancouver that this term in waterloo would be a time of eating healthy and exercising, the first food that i ingested after arrival in waterloo was a deep-fried, gooey-cheddar-covered, tartar-sauced filet-o-fish. it was. *btw: i slept great after that

(Friday, September 10 2004)

wake up around 1000. there's someone sleeping on the futon in the living room (not jeff, he's got his own room). i take a closer look, and found out later that it was vin. he'd come in to start moving stuff. excellent...we got started around 1300 (but only after a "healthy breakfast" of pizza...sketchy pizza, 3 days old!(no joke). today was pretty productive, but man it's almost unbelievable how much stuff vin's managed to accumulate in here in a relatively short time:




jeff's got a lot of "nature-ish" landscape posters on his walls, so i said i'd call him "nature boy". vin's got crazy gadgets n lil electronics gizmos (this guy's PS2 was on the ground in like 10 pieces b/c he'd taken it apart to "supe it up!) so i said he could be macgyver. he's also got a crazy fish tank n he knows a lot about fish (they're his hobby) so i said he could be Deuce Bigalow too...anyway the day was pretty productive, managed to sort out tons of crap n clear most of the stuff out and into the living room, but clearing out that room will be a whole other mission. managed to get a shelf, a mattress, a frame, and a desk from westcourt so that was good. retrieved the rice cooker and telephone that I'd originally "donated" back in May too, those'll come in handy. got some basic groceries too, although i didn't buy too much cuz i was kinda in a rush, just some sandwich stuff, eggs, and baby carrots without dip! i was so tempted to get the dip (just the 'lite' one) but carter convinced me earlier that if i wanted to be healthy there had to be none of that. neway, by the end of the day my room was lookin pretty good:



(not done yet; still got vin's fishtank, dresser n desk in there, but it's almost there...)

still got a bit to work on, but once the fish tank and vin's desk are out i'll be able to do more. ok that's enough typing for now. 2mrrw's gonna be another day of moving stuff, vin n carter finally got a place so we gotta transport all their crap over there. yes, "exercise"...ah well. i'm likin' this new place, haven't gotten a chance to use the kitchen yet, but that'll come soon...

the moving men... - Saturday, September 11 2004(2358)

spent most of the day moving vin's stuff outta the living room n down into ben's pathfinder so they could continue moving into their new place. i wanted to eat something healthy this morning so i opened the pack of baby carrots i bought yesterday n had a few (no dip!)...but at about 1230 jeff n calla "convinced" me to go for dim sum w/ them n a bunch of other ppl down @ Crystal Palace. there goes the healthy routine again...but it's all gude b/c tonight i had what i believe to be the healthiest dinner that i've ever made: steamed baby carrots, boiled broccoli, a few tiny slices of rye bread, and some parts of this whole bbq chicken that i bought at the grocery store yesterday. don't believe me?
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is this the kind of eating that it takes to get in great shape? i think i'm gonna go insane...o_O